Setting up Google Analytics with SellerDeck Software

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Firstly, you will need to sign up for a Google Analytics account. Follow the link below and follow the sign up instructions:

https://accounts.google.com/ServiceL...p=signup&hl=en

Configuring Google Analytics including Goals and funnels to work with SellerDeck:

You will need to make the following changes to your Google Analytics dashboard in order to correctly receive the values from the SellerDeck store.

1. Login to Google Analytics:
   
   https://www.google.com/analytics/web/
   
   
2. On the main Google Analytics screen, where you see all your profiles listed, click the ‘Admin’ button located near the top right of the screen to access all profiles.
3. Click the ‘New Account’ button. Complete the requested details on the form “Website name”, Website URL” and so on. When you have completed the form, click “Get Tracking ID”. You will need to accept the terms and conditions.
4. At the top of the page, you will see your company name highlighted in bold and text under saying ‘Property ID’. The ‘Property ID’ there will be a line of text, which looks something like: UA-37891863-1. Please make a note of this as you will need it later to configure within your SellerDeck software.
   
   
   
   
5. Once on Admin page there should be three columns (if not click the icon on the left hand side) and click ‘View Settings’ under the View (profile) heading.
   
   
   
   
   
6. On this page, scroll down till you find the ‘Currency Displayed as’ and change this to suit your website. Then click Save. You can also set up E-commerce tracking by clicking this button on ‘Ecommerce Settings’

Click save and return to admin screen.

Setting up a ‘Receipt’ goal in Google Analytics.

This will show you how many people complete a purchase on your online site. Therefore measuring customer’s activity at the checkout.

1. If you are not already on the admin home tab, click ‘Admin’ in the top right. Of the three columns, Click the goals tab (tab on the right hand side ‘View Profile’)
2. Click ‘Create a new goal’ (for goal set up, just click ‘Custom’
3. In the “Goal name” field, enter “Receipt”
4. In “Goal Type” filed, click one of the radio buttons you wish the receipt goal to monitor, for example the “Destination” will measure how many customer’s access your URL of your website.
5. In the “Destination URL” field, enter “/receipt.html”.
6. Under “Goal Value”, enter ‘0’.
7. You can also setup a 'Shopping Cart' funnel that will show you how many customers

added products to their shopping basket and then didn't go through with the order. To do this, enter the following settings after clicking the ‘Use Funnel’ tick box.

Enter the following details:

Step 1 URL: /cgi-bin/ca000001.pl
Step 1 Name: Basket

Step 2 URL: /cgi-bin/os000001.pl
Step 2 Name: Checkout


Press the ‘Save’ button at the bottom of the page when you have completed the above.


How to enable Google Analytics in the SellerDeck software:

1. Within the SellerDeck software go to the ‘Marketing’ and click on ‘Google Analytics’. This will open up a new window.
   
2. Tick the tick box ‘Enable Google Analytics’.
   
3. After ticking the tick box enter your account number from your Google Analytics profile, which you made a note of earlier...
   
4. You also have the option to sign up for Google analytics if you haven’t already by clicking the button which says ‘Sign Up for Google Analytics’.
   
5. The image below shows that the window will look like when enabling Google Analytics in the SellerDeck software.